The Story of B. Abraham

My name is B. Abraham. I was born and brought up in a Hindu family.
My old name was B. Arumugam. I was an idol worshipper. When I was
studying in eighth class this question came to me, "Who is God?" The
answer was that God is above man's limitation; he must not be
entangled in sex or love of self. He must be holy.

With those thoughts, I compared my gods and found they are below the
standard, they have immoral lives and they steal and cheat. So I came
to the conclusion that there is no god. I used to argue with my
friends that there is no heaven or hell. When I was in the first year
of college, I fell seriously ill, and was admitted to the hospital. I
was on my death bed, but by the grace of God I was healed and
discharged after two weeks. I came from the hospital with another
question, "If I die today where will I spend my eternity?" I did not
get a proper answer to this question. I was confused. I had not
peace.

I discontinued my college and took a small job. The fear of death
haunted me every hour. I hated life, so I took poison but did not
die. I tried to become sanyasi, but could not find a forest near my
town.

In those days I was given a Christian tract. I tore it in anger
without reading the title. But still God loved me. I found an English
version of the gospel of Matthew in my house. I opened it and my eyes
fell on chapter 7:7: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you
shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." I read the verse
knowing it is a Christian book. I threw it out in anger.

But God began to speak from that verse and confirmed what Jesus says
is truth. My mind was changed and I wanted to know more about
Christ. I attended a church. I wanted to join the Christian
religion. A young believer in that church told me not to join the
Christian religion because religions did not die for me so they
cannot save me. Instead, he told me to join to Jesus Christ. And he
shared his personal testimony and two Bible verses. Romans 3:23,
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" and Romans
6:23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord." That night God spoke to my
heart, convincing me that I was a sinner. My past sins were revealed
to me like a slide picture show. Next morning, on 24th January 1972,
I knelt and prayed in my house "Lord Jesus I am a sinner, please
forgive my sins and wash me by your blood and come in my heart." God
forgave my sins immediately, some burden rolled away from my heart, I
was filled with peace and was delivered from the fear of death. Then
God took away the desire to see movies and God told me to burn all
the sex books that I was reading secretly and I obeyed. I had a
desire to study law and help the poor. God told me that I may help
the poor to become rich, but when they die they will go to hell and
suffer for eternity. If I preach the gospel to them and if they
believe Jesus, when they die they will go to heaven and rejoice for
eternity.

So I committed my life to serve the Lord. I took Bible training and I
was pastoring a church in South India. God annointed me with the
power of the Holy Ghost and called me to serve in North India. I
delayed, knowing the difficulties of the extreme hot and cold climate
and the financial problems. God chased me like Jonah to Delhi. So I
came to Delhi and have been serving the Lord there with my family
since 1986.

In the beginning, we suffered a lot for the missionary call. I was
beaten and bitten by eunuchs. The Devil put hot water upon my eight
months old son, but God spared his life with major injuries. The
scars are still seen all over his body and face. We were without food
for three days and faced financial difficulties. We underwent a dry
period of fruitless and discouraging ministry.

We have distributed thousands of tracts and gospel packets house to
house, in hospitals, in market places, and in some Hindu festivals in
this capital city of Delhi. After four years of a dry ministry, God
is saving and adding souls to the church. Around 50 people have taken
baptism by May '93. Among them were idol worshippers and lepers.
Praise God.